Nkandla report: Leaking, tweeting and a media lock-up
Coverage of the Oscar Pistorius trial was momentarily displaced by the public protector's Nkandla report. Let me say up-front I ...
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SA newspapers: manufacturing dissent?
The eminent American scholar-activist Noam Chomsky published a celebrated critique in 1988 of the media in the United States. The ...
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The second transition – let’s not get sucker punched into a false debate
We are now already deep into the silly season of an ANC-led movement electoral year. At the forefront of trying ...
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An unreliable Witness
A comrade from Pietermaritzburg has just brought to my attention an editorial in last Friday's The Witness ('Spectre of Censorship', ...
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The Red October campaign: what’s really in the public interest?
Recently appointed Sowetan editor, Mpumelelo Mkabela, has been trying to impress his bosses by boosting sales with trashy tabloid stories. ...
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Red Alert: What journalists think
In the course of last year the SACP along with its Alliance partners attempted to open up a debate about ...
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